Fedor Kudryavtsev graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARHI) in 1993 with the diploma of architect and later in 1995 took a post-graduate course on urban management in the Institute of Housing and Urban development studies (IHS), Rotterdam. After working for private and state planning institutions and independent architectural practice, he has been serving as Head of the Laboratory of Urban Studies (ULab) in MARHI since 2005 and, as a practicing architect and a planner, is a partner and CEO in ArchNOVA architectural bureau.
The combination of research and design activities allowed him to use the experience and practice of very basic projects like proposals for site redevelopment, suburban areas master planning, design of housing and commercial buildings as data for theoretical studies and conceptual research on more general subjects. Among them there are spatial self-organization of the city structure, agglomeration growth, role of international airports as new urban nodes. The latter themes were output of several research grants of Russian Fund of Basic Research and Ministry of Education he won and fulfilled with his team in 2009-2011. As part of scientific program of ULab since 2010 he started an annual public event under the title of open discussion to provoke professional and general public debates on urban planning problems. Two of them were already successfully held with great public interest and were focused on prospects for bicycle transport in Moscow and scenarios for Moscow agglomeration development.
Along his carreer he combines practical works with teaching and is now acting as associate professor of the Department of Urban Planning in his alma mater. He is also a coordinator of international exchange programs like the one between MARHI and La Sapienza University in Rome.
His first experience related to ISOCARP was a participation in YPP workshop at the 37th Congress in Utrecht (2001) that followed by full society membership in 2003. Since then he has attended various ISOCARP congresses and served as chair of one of the seminars at the congress in Geneve (2004). Other activities include being a team member of the UPAT Schwechat municipality and Vienna International airport (2007) and articles and data he and his colleagues have contributed to ISOCARP publications: International Manual of Planning Practice (2008), Review 05 Low Carbon Cities (2009), Review 07 Urbanizing World, Meeting the Challenge (2012).